Look, as a libertarian I think the list of federal entities to be abolished soon should include the: Consumer Financial Protection Board, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve System,...
Economics
How to Reverse the Monetary Breakdown of the West
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Feb 12, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
For more than half a century, the global economy has operated under a monetary system divorced from gold. The 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods system, where the U.S. dollar’s convertibility to gold was suspended, ushered in the fiat money era, a regime in which...
Reform’s Plan to Save Britain from Booms and Busts
by Owen Ashworth | Feb 10, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
The newly born Reform Party UK, with its freshmen five members of Parliament, recently attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit quantitative easing (QE) except for emergency situations. This was done through a procedure the British parliamentary system calls...
Abolish Antitrust!
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 8, 2025 | Blog, Economics, Justice
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
Revisiting Rothbard’s Argument on Tariffs
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Feb 6, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
As American consumers and businesses face the looming possibility of additional tariffs under a second Trump administration, it is worth revisiting the incisive critique of protectionism put forth by economist Murray Rothbard in his book Power and Market. Rothbard’s...
The Economics of Deadwood
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 23, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
California’s catastrophic wildfires have become an annual tragedy. Beyond the devastation they bring to communities and ecosystems, these fires are a powerful metaphor for the unintended consequences of human intervention in natural systems. A primary culprit in...
A Libertarian-Left Alliance…On Economics?
by Thomas Eddlem | Jan 20, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
It sounds silly; a libertarian-left alliance on economics? It's almost like the wolf and the sheep allying on what’s for dinner. But hear me out. There’s a global political realignment in the works, and it’s clearly based on stopping the military-industrial complex,...
TGIF: The H-1B Controversy
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 17, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Does anyone still believe that the market process should set prices, including wages? Apparently not. Take the controversy surrounding the H-1B visa, the program that "permits" employers to hire highly educated and skilled foreign workers, such as hi-tech personnel....